Pentamerus-Eospirifer Community, Achitnoor Lake (Silurian of Mongolia)

Where: Mongloian Altai, Mongolia (44.9° N, 95.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green schist and lithified limestone

• White, marble-like, dense, fine-grained limestones, as lenses in a green schist unit.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K.H. S. Rozman. 1999. Silurian brachiopod communities of Mongolia. in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds., Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 164-176 [M. Foote/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13193: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Carl Simpson on 28.01.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus kamyschenskiensis
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer parvus
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Plectatrypa imbricata
Plectatrypa imbricata Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Spirigerina praemarginalis" = Eospirigerina putilla
"Spirigerina praemarginalis" = Eospirigerina putilla Hall and Clarke 1894
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Septatrypa sp.
Septatrypa sp. Kozlowski 1929
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
[entered as Lepaena sp.]